State OPA Explains Questions Permanent Gasoline Rationing
Raleigh July 20. OPA state gasoline specialist G L Bateman answers common questions on permanent rationing as second registration proceeds smoothly. Ration books must be returned when selling a car or applied for anew when changing cars. gas coupons cannot be saved. one book per car. stickers displayed. replacement allowed for lost or mutilated books. soldiers wives may obtain coupons for husbands cars. no gas for sightseeing buses. about 1,000,000 vehicles operate in Continental Europe now.
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Raleigh
G. L. Bateman
OPA
Bateman
Focal Rationing Board
World championship Blasters Pair opens with Jimmie Maier tribute
Bridge notes recount M J Maier death last year and his 1941 championship win with Howard Schenken. The article describes Maier’s play in a hand where he discards the deuce of spades to mislead, ends with a dramatic endplay, and reveals his refined, tactical style amid remembrance of the late master.
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Jimmie Maier
Maier
Howard Schenken
West
Declarer
Hast
South
East
Defense Questions Defense Questions Monday War Civilians Q&A
The Enterprise Raleigh bureau will answer questions on the war’s effects on civilians with verified responses. Readers submit queries to P O Box 1309 Raleigh NC. The column covers sugar quotas for cafes, draft board policies, flower pricing, unemployment figures, sugar canning limits, nonprofit crafts, and sheet music as a publication under price controls.
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Enterprise
Raeleigh Bureau
Enterprise’s Bureau
P. O
Raleigh
N.C
Rndh
Raleigh Bureau
P. O. Box
Raleigh, Ms
Music Prices Regulated Under New Rules
Sheet music falls under the price controls as outlined by the new regulations, specifying standards for pricing and compliance for sellers and distributors. The rules aim to ensure fair access and curb price gouging in music publishing.
Public school towel laundering bid rejected in St Louis
St Louis public schools face towel washing woes as only one laundry bid 84 cents higher per hundred towels than last year. The bid was rejected and no new bids have arrived. Separately a tanker sinking by an axis submarine caused gasoline loss enough to drive 5,000 cars a year, with post war cars expected to be smaller and lighter.
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ST. Louis
State Highway Deaths Drop Sharply in June
Raleigh dispatch reports that North Carolina highway fatalities fell to 58 in June, the lowest this year and 39 fewer than June 1941, a 40 percent drop. For six months in 1942, 416 deaths were recorded, 25.3 percent below the 357 from the same period in 1941, with large cities showing significant improvements.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State
Asheville
War production program seeks scrap steel and rubber
A crisis in war production requires patriotic American cooperation to fill shortages of steel scrap rubber and other vital materials. The appeal urges citizens to double check their premises for more scrap and to submit any already collected, emphasizing the need to mobilize resources for battleships and overall war effort.
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Europe
Japan
Iraq
McKenney
William E. McKenney
America’s Card Authority
Park Central Hotel
New York
Val
AQSE
Bob Thomison
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
MR. Nelson
WAR Production Board
America
Great
Conservation Division
American Industries Salvage Committee
Scrap Iron
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